I can’t reproduce anything more poignantly than those who were covering it live, so there it is:

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What have we done? What are we doing? Is this who we want to be? As CT’s Supreme Court considers the continued viability of capital punishment for the 10 remaining on death row, it would do well to keep in mind the kind of inhuman torture that we are endorsing – explicitly or implicitly – by keeping this punishment alive.

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I am absolutely disgusted by this. And the only reason all of those in favor of the death penalty are, as well, is because it is awfully hard to watch anyone suffer, which, in the end, is kind of the point. Shame on Oklahoma. Shame on the U.S.

“Thirst for blood” is such a cop-out. This man shot a woman and then buried her alive. Letting him live out the remainder of his days is simply not justice. The fact that he suffered – possibly due to his own lawsuit meant to prevent the State from acquiring the drugs that would have prevented that suffering – is kind of ironic, in a You Totally Deserved It kind of way. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.